http://www.aerogazette.com/?p=217 can we fly it? Rocco Caruso

Public debate about Flarm and an 'open source' collision avoidance protocol (italian) http://mail.baskerville.it/pipermail/voloavela/2008-January/date.html In english (by italian pilots!) http://mail.baskerville.it/pipermail/voloavela/2008-January/002174.html (by...

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It seems as if GPS interference testing is becoming more widespread. See: http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/gps/gpsnotices/GPS_Interference.pdf I wonder if anyone has thought of what might happen if one of these 'tests' happened near the time an place of a sechduled contest. Basically, you would lose...

Looking for a Ventus 2Cxt Andy

Looking for the width of a 15m single seat Cobra trailer from tire outside to tire outside to see if it will fit on a flat bed trailer 6'-8" wide. Cobra is 1998. Trying to arrange transport across the county. Thanks, ~Barny

Our club in Indiana is looking for advice and / or experience in converting Pawnee Tow planes to run on motor fuel. Any comments or advice would be gratefully accepted .

Anytime in the next couple months. Have 1 enclosed trailer (single seat) currently at Ridge Soaring that needs to move west toward Iowa. Any distance helpful. Thanks, Matt

The first edition of the new magazine, "Gliding International" has an article on the 2 seat self-launch super glider, the EB28. I would have thought that a glider of this class would have automatic hookups, but it uses l'Hotellier connections. Do other current design open class ships use...

ASW-28, 2001, 422 hours, NDH, aluminum Cobra Trailer, Cambridge LNAV w/ Brick, Dittle 720 ch., tow out gear, ELT, O2 Bottle, other options. $84000. or BO. Will consider trade for 35 to 1 or better, older ship, metal or glass. Winner of '02 US Standard Class Nationals. Tom Beltz 610-377-7718, cell...

Thanks to all for suggestions on keeping rodents out of gliders and glider trailers. So far, so good. No signs of "Mickey Mouse" today. A couple or three weeks ago, I did the following: 1. I removed all food from the glider and the trailer. I had a pretty good supply of crackers and granola...

Looking for a used SN10B, thanks. fulda304 'at' hotmail 'dot' com

The SSA website listing of 2008 contests shows a 15M nationals at Mifflin in May. This is an error. The listing that shows the contest in Uvalde in August is correct.

As new condition, S/n 111, Approx 425 hrs only, NDH, Filser 5000FAI upgraded to 7007 specs, B40 Borgelt, Becker Radio with boom mike, new style winglets, tinted canopy, oxygen fittings, Pegasus compass, PDA with Winpilot, tow out gear,Cobra trailer with heavy duty specs, new tyres. Full outfit...

My club is about to acquire a 250 HP Pawnee with no muffler and a 7 ft climb pitch prop. We are anticipating some noise issues. I have seen Pawnees in the UK with mufflers and four bladed (Hoffmann?) props and which were eerily quiet. Anyone know what these mods cost, in performance and...

Our club is selling our 1-26E, s/n 552. See ad on page 5 on the W & W site. More pictures are on the front page of our club website: http://www.antelopevalleysoaringclub.com/ Call or email for more info. Mike Malis AVSC 661.284.6967

The Gottingen 549 Airfoil is used on many sailplanes, including my Cherokee II. For my aerodynamics class, I am developing a FORTRAN program to use the panel method to determine aerodynamic coefficients for an airfoil. Part of the exercise is to first pick an airfoil with known coordinates and...

Jim Phoenix wrote: Or just search for 'soaring' and see a list of everyone's soaring- related exemptions. Jim Or, you could take yet another approach. Advisory Circulars are NOT regulation. They show a means of

Can someone tell me the status of the old Data Plate Exemption for gliders? There used to be a page on the SSA web page with the exemption, but I can't find it now. Is the Data Plate Exemption exempt? Do I now need a data plate? Or, has the exemption been made permanent? Thanks in advance for...

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